Abdul El-Sayed's Michigan Senate win divides Jewish leaders as AJC Detroit calls his anti-Israel rhetoric a stain on the historic milestone.

Two separate federal lawsuits have been filed, one on Election Night by a conservative policy group, and a brand-new lawsuit filed by major utilities DTE and Consumers Energy. The message of getting big money out of politics clearly resonated with voters this week, but opponent action was immediate.

Legal challenges are mounting against Proposal 2 just days after voters overwhelmingly passed the campaign finance measure.

Michigan Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed said some people wanted to make his race a “referendum on me and my name and my faith” in a speech at the Arab American Leadership and Empowerment at National CONNECT Summit in Virginia on Friday.

For the first time in a decade, election predictions far exceeded public expectations. What pollsters anticipated as a blue wave billowed into a blue tsunami. Wins that held ground for already blue seats eased nerves, and the flips of swing states like Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina and Ohio energized the blue base. But red-belt-busting wins in Republican strongholds like Texas, South Carolina and Kansas alongside pending races in Alaska and...

U.S. Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Caledonia, has defeated Democrat Ben Ambrose in Michigan's 2nd Congressional District.

Democrat Sean McCann has won Michigan’s 4th Congressional District, ousting longtime Rep. Bill Huizenga (R), according to Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ). Huizenga has represented western Michigan in the House for more than a decade. While he easily won his last race in 2024, the district has become more competitive in recent years and was viewed…

In the tense final hours before his dramatic election as senator for Michigan in this week’s midterms, Abdul El-Sayed had a heated encounter with a British TV journalist that rapidly went viral. As James Matthews of Sky News tried to ask him a question, El-Sayed bit back. “Why would I care to have a conversation with you?” he demanded of Matthews, placing both hands on the reporter’s shoulders in a gesture of emphasis. “You know how many votes I...

Days after defeating Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s Senate election—overcoming $38 million of AIPAC funds, a tidal wave of bigotry and Islamophobia, and an eleventh hour betrayal by Democratic Representative Haley Stevens—Dr. Abdul El-Sayed has launched the “Habibi PAC.” A Federal Election Commission filing shows that the first Muslim to ever be elected to the U.S. Senate made the PAC official on Thursday. The leadership PAC is not...